Frame Relay for High-Speed Networks

In the late 1990s frame relay has become popular for delivering the high-speed services that are emerging from the Internet. These services include videoconferencing, SNA networking, voice over data, and high-speed Internet access itself. This text emphasizes services instead of bits-&-bytes, and contrasts frame relay with competing technologies in the fast packet suite. Goralski starts from the premise that readers have certain business problems to solve (in other words, applications to deliver to demanding business users). He explains how frame technologies can be gathered into existing systems and how frame-enabled systems can be exploited for cost-effective solutions. The book considers frame relay as the private data network of tomorrow and is written for users with little or no exposure to fast packet networking.